Back at Trilobyte, we used LV-Rs to store the masters of the video footage for The 11th Hour - very much like laserdisc, but with the disc permanently encased in a caddy. Pretty cool system for the time. ^_^ The big thing for us was, of course, that the stored quality was about as good as it could be, and the player could be stepped through with frame accuracy to be digitised and compressed for each of the encoder versions (Windows and 3DO, mainly - the Mac version used the same format as the PC version, being essentially a port).
How storage improves in not all that much time. ^_^ I was once so pleased to have my very own CD-R, and be able to write out a whole 700MB at a time. A few years later, that was replaced by a DVD-R, giving me up to 8.4GB per dual-layer disc. A few more years, and I placed my last disc order, as it was just too much hassle to split large disc images across DVD-Rs, and went purely with HDs instead. And now, I've got.. blarg, let's see. The current photography RAID is 2x3TB, and the previous one was something like 2x2TB, and the one before that 2x1.5TB. Then there's miscellanous video and suchlike, across.. a couple 1TB, one or two 1.5TB, and one or two 3TB. Some of them hang off the Airport, some off a USB 3 hub, plus a couple more offline as purely long term backup.
By the time I stopped using DVD-Rs, I was just over the 500 mark.. if you assume around 5.5GB each (I only started using dual-layer routinely later on), a full copy of everything would fit onto a single 3TB drive. Pretty amazing.
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Date: 2016-04-02 02:55 pm (UTC)How storage improves in not all that much time. ^_^ I was once so pleased to have my very own CD-R, and be able to write out a whole 700MB at a time. A few years later, that was replaced by a DVD-R, giving me up to 8.4GB per dual-layer disc. A few more years, and I placed my last disc order, as it was just too much hassle to split large disc images across DVD-Rs, and went purely with HDs instead. And now, I've got.. blarg, let's see. The current photography RAID is 2x3TB, and the previous one was something like 2x2TB, and the one before that 2x1.5TB. Then there's miscellanous video and suchlike, across.. a couple 1TB, one or two 1.5TB, and one or two 3TB. Some of them hang off the Airport, some off a USB 3 hub, plus a couple more offline as purely long term backup.
By the time I stopped using DVD-Rs, I was just over the 500 mark.. if you assume around 5.5GB each (I only started using dual-layer routinely later on), a full copy of everything would fit onto a single 3TB drive. Pretty amazing.